Why are Zebras black and white?

Question

why not brown or bush coloured?

Answer 1

The stripe patterns help to confuse their natural and mose omnipresent predators: lions. These big cats see in black & white only, not color. So can you imagine what it must look like to a lion too see a thousand black and white stripes running in myriad directions and trying to pick one out for dinner? Now, you are probably wondering why nature would create a black and white animal, as if mother nature had some sixth sense about lions and their sight. Well, it doesn't, but if you go far into the past, all zebras (or whatever they were at the time) were most liely a different color(probably a solid white or black, like another equine relative, horses). Then the lions came along and began to easily pick them off. So what happens? Over time, the zebras them selves begin to change, and develop (via genetic mutation) stripes. Now, these striped zebras are not easily picked off by the lions and generally live longer and mate more until their genetic makeup becomes the dominant one and the original zebras and their color scheme is lost to time.

Answer 2

Zebras are generally thought to have white coats with black (sometimes brown) stripes. That's because if you look at most zebras, the stripes end on their bellies and toward the insides of the legs, and the rest is all white.
However (there had to be a catch, right?), some zebras are born with genetic variations that make them all black with white stripes, or mostly dark with the striped pattern only on part of their coats.
And as it turns out, zebras have black skin underneath their hair. So it kind of depends on how you look at it!
But colours are only because of genes they have.

Answer 3

Believe it or not, it's an effective means of camouflage. Imagine there's a lion hunting near a herd of zebras. As soon as the zebras see the lion, they're going to run around in panic. All the stripes become extremely confusing, and the lion, in turn, finds it very hard to zero in on one single zebra.

Answer 4

When the heat rises from the savanna, objects seems to undulate (maybe you've seen this on a road during a hot summer day). The stripes combined with the undulating heat vapors create an effective camouflage that makes it difficult for he predators to zero in on zebra.

Answer 5

It's an effective means of protection against their predators.

Answer 6

Good question. It's not really good camoflauge, is it? No wonder they're always getting eaten! lol

Answer 7

Because those are the colors that God made them.

Answer 8

how come people are not purple? why not green or red?

Answer 9

Because they are not racist

Answer 10

because god wants them to be like that
what a silly question........